To Joseph Maiden1    27 November 1885

27/11/85.

 

Let me hope, dear Mr Maiden, that you arrived well at your home, and that you found your family also well and happy - only, be careful now, not to overwork yourself, so that the good, which your tour during convalescence has done you, may not be lost again.2

We passed here at our meeting yesterday a short resolution congratulatory and rejoycive, and (in confidence speaking) appointed a subcommittee; to report to our meeting next week, whether my proposition, to hold a ball in the interest of this branch of the society is feasible.

The enclosed few lines for Mr Bäuerlen are mainly intended as a felicitation to himself.3

Very regardfully

your

Ferd. von Mueller

 

We here look forward with great interest to the forthcoming fêtes in honor of the expedition. I hope the name Strickland will be maintained for the new large branch of the River4

1
MS annotation: 'Ansd. 15/12'. Letter not found. For a summary of the above letter see: ML MSS.853/2 letter register, no. 895, Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (NSW Branch), Mitchell Library: 'J. H. Maiden re health'.
2
Maiden had been unwell for several months, probably from typhoid fever, but had recently visited Melbourne; see M to E. Strickland, 21 November 1885.
3
Enclosed letter not found.
4
The name has been maintained for a major tributary of the Fly River recorded during the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia's New Guinea exploring expedition in 1885.

Please cite as “FVM-85-11-27,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on 23 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/85-11-27